[patch 2/3] ps3: BD/DVD/CD-ROM Storage Driver

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com
Thu Jul 19 19:39:32 EST 2007


On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:02:07 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > +struct ps3rom_private {
> > > > +	struct ps3_storage_device *dev;
> > > > +	struct scsi_cmnd *curr_cmd;
> > > > +};
> > > > +#define ps3rom_priv(dev)	((dev)->sbd.core.driver_data)
> > > > +
> > > 
> > > Someone should invent a keyboard which delivers an electric shock when the
> > > operator types "#define".   In the meanwhile, I get to do the honours.
> > > 
> > > Please don't implement in a macro anything which can be implemented in C.
> > 
> > All I needed was a shorthand to access driver_data, for both read and write
> > access (you cannot do the latter with C, unless you decouple read and write).
> 
> Oh dear.
> 
> 	ps3rom_priv(dev) = host;
> 
> that's 'orrid.  We have an identifier pretending to be a function, only we
> go and treat it as an lvalue.
> 
> I mean, C code should look like C code, and the above just doesn't.
> 
> Sigh.

Do you prefer

static inline struct ps3rom_private *ps3rom_priv_get(struct ps3_storage_device
*dev)
{
	return dev->sbd.core.driver_data;
}

static inline void ps3rom_priv_set(struct ps3_storage_device *dev,
				   struct ps3rom_private *priv)
{
	dev->sbd.core.driver_data = priv;
}

instead?

With kind regards,
 
Geert Uytterhoeven
Software Architect

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